I have been saying some of this in many of my recent comments, and I really hope we all pick up on this. To rebut the inevitable "but Joe sixpack thinks..." comments that are sure to come, I just have to say let the boogeyman of "Joe Sixpack" (weird, most of my friends and I would probably qualify for this label if we didn't live near a city, Chicago, and all support Obama) vote for whomever he wishes to. The corporate-friendly tax system promoters, the religious right, the war-mongers... none of these groups are shamed into voting for candidates who may be more palatable to "regular folks." (What are we, irregular? We're not rich or especially poor, but apparently in order to be called regular you also have to be a moron)

The crazy people all vote for the candidate who seems to be as crazy as they are, and then worry about convincing Joe Sixpack that they are not actually that crazy later. So frankly, I don't give a damn what other groups will call our candidate, I'm just glad he will support most of our ideas. There is, of course, the added bonus this year of being able to point out how wrong every other political group has been. Every. Single. One.

To slightly modify a quote by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, "When you have eliminated all other paths as wrong, the one that remains, however improbable, must be correct."

(I'm sure my modification leaves much to be desired and you could probably poke holes into that statement... but it's one a.m. and I couldn't think of anything else, so, fuck off) 

by Weapon X on 05/12/2008 02:03:49 AM EST